Elizabeth Warren May Be Able to Claim 1/32 Native American Ancestry

The Boston Globe reports, "Geneologist says Warren may be able to claim Cherokee heritage...":

A record unearthed Monday shows that Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has a great-great-great grandmother listed in an 1894 document as a Cherokee, said a genealogist at the New England Historic and Genealogy Society.

The latest shred of evidence could validate her claim that she has Native American ancestry, making her 1/32 American Indian, but may not put an end to the questions swirling around the subject.

Intense focus in Warren’s heritage comes as the Democratic candidate has faced several days of scrutiny about whether she has represented herself as a minority in her academic career.

The Boston Herald reported Friday that Harvard University Law School had promoted Warren as a minority hire when the school was under fire for a lack of diversity in its faculty.

Warren said on Friday that she did not know the school had done so and that she did not recall using her Indian ancestry to advance her career.

But the Globe and other outlets reported Sunday that Warren had listed herself as a minority professor between 1986 and 1995 in the Association of American Law Schools desk book, a major reference for legal professors.

A Harvard Law School spokeswoman, Sarah Marston, said Monday that the school would not comment on Warren or why it chose to promote her heritage. The Warren campaign last night sent statements from deans and faculty at four universities where Warren taught, attesting that her ancestry never came up in the hiring process.

And wouldn't you know it, the New York Times is all too happy to play up that angle, "Elizabeth Warren's Ancestry Irrelevant in Hiring, Law School Says."

Wow! That's a huge surprise that Warren and the law school establishment would look to deny any significance to the claims of Native American ancestry. Given that Warren's about as lily white as you can be, this whole thing blows up the left's diversity scam in education and hiring. What a total farce.

And see earlier, from Instapundit, "MORE ON ELIZABETH WARREN’S CLAIM OF “MINORITY” STATUS...", and "Plus, I, for one, salute Harvard Law School for having the courage to hire Professor Dances-With-Occupiers."

Plus, at Althouse, "James Taranto theorizes that Elizabeth Warren 'downplayed her alleged Indian roots after coming to Harvard to avoid the stigma of 'affirmative action''."

Also, from Legal Insurrection, "Confirmed – Elizabeth Warren knowingly self-identified as Native American on law association forms," and David Bernstein at Volokh, "Elizabeth Warren Update" (via Memeorandum).

BONUS: From Howie Carr, at the New York Post, "Harvard’s ‘Populist’- Liz Warren’s Pathetic Pose."